We have had a lot of questions regarding the current COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this challenging time, Rubberatkins remains open for business and will continue to process orders as normal. We have implemented more stringent health precautions in our offices around the world in order to take care of the safety of our employees.

This year's annual Rubberatkins Christmas Party was held at the Rox Hotel this year. We were delighted to blow off some steam and celebrate the upcoming New Year together! We are excited to be back in the office with lots of exciting things coming for 2020.

Our experts got a little competitive at our recent pool night! Some of our teams from our Aberdeen based office got together for some friendly competition!

As part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week, North East Scotland College has launched the NESCol Apprentice of the Year awards, sponsored by Moray East Offshore Windfarm.

Rubberatkins own, Alex Charlton, has been shortlisted in the Engineering category for his accomplishments in the field of Mechanical Engineering Maintenance.

Alex joined Rubberatkins in March 2017 under the Adopt an Apprentice scheme and has since excelled in his learning journey. Stand Walker, Rubberatkins Maintenance Manager, has nothing but compliments to say about our nominee:

‘Alex is one of those people who pick up skills quickly and works very well with others. All of my maintenance engineers are expected to learn a variety of skills and Alex excels in anything he does from welding and fabricating to electrical and PPM systems. He is a gem and we are lucky to have him.’

Whatever happens on the awards night, to us, you are a true winner Alex. Thank you for your hard work.

Saturday 4th August saw a Rubberatkins team of foolhardy “athletes” take on the daunting challenge on the Beach Ballistic OCR event, a gruelling 16K obstacle course along Balmedie beach. Involving climbing sand dunes the size of Ben Nevis with sandbags and kegs, wading through the icy north sea and clambering with ropes and nets over various contraptions, it was not for the faint-hearted or faint legged. The team crossed the finish line in less than 4 hours, which we thought was respectable if not record-breaking. 4 days later and we have almost fully recovered. We raised a fantastic £780.63 for Kidney Kids Scotland through sponsorship and a bake sale.

Great article in today's Press and Journal highlighting some major milestones in our recent development and calling driven candidates to join our forces.

https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/176022/rubberatkins-to-hire-12-in-aberdeen-as-expansion-drive-kicks-into-gear/

On Wednesday 27th June Bridge of Don Academy hosted its first ever Summer Festival which incorporated sports day events along with inter-house competitions.

Rubberatkins donated the house banners and rock climbing wall for the students to enjoy during their activities.

It was also a great pleasure to meet Jackie Lockhart, Scottish, world and Olympic Curler who opened the summer festival and presented a number of medals.

Great event BODA. We would like to wish all of the students happy and safe summer holidays.

Rubberatkins once again was a key supporter of an Annual Charity Golf Outing. The event is a fantastic one, featuring 28 teams aiming to raise thousands of dollars for the Texas Children’s Hospital. Our support this year, just like others, came in the form of not only entering a team but also by sponsoring the event.

After a gruelling selection process we whittled the numbers down from 4 players to........ 4 players. Team Captain was Alistair. Ably assisting him was Nick, Danny and Cary. With little to no recent play under our belts team RA arrived a little rusty to say the least but nothing a few practice balls at the venues (all water) practice range wouldn’t fix, right? Well wrong as it turns out. Maybe practicing hitting balls into water isn’t such a great idea. We’ll blame that.

Anyway we completed the 18 holes in a very respectable level par 71. Sounds pretty good right? Well turns out for a Texas Scramble playing against a bunch of Texans, level par is very average. 51 shots was the winning score, 20 under par! Highlights for the Rubberatkins team included two lengthy birdie putts, one for Nick and one for Cary, two lengthy beverage stops, and of course our team kit which received plenty of attention.

We will return next year a more impressive outfit, even if that does just mean the team kit.